cups-browsed auto-discovers printers which are announced
via DNS-SD and auto-creates local print queues for them.
Normally the cups-browsed.service should not be activated
because it is a generic security risk when a service accepts
any (possibly malicious) incoming information from any host
in the local network (in particular DNS-SD announcements) and
from that information it auto-creates print queue configurations
for CUPS where the CUPS server program cupsd runs as root.
Both cupsd and cups-browsed are network services
that are designed for use in a trusted internal network
and not intended to be exposed to the public Internet
or to other non-trusted networks which means:
It is crucial to limit access to cupsd and cups-browsed to trusted users.
It is crucial to limit access to network printer devices to trusted users.
It is crucial to not accept remote printing information from untrusted hosts.
For more information see the openSUSE support database article
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_and_SANE_Firewall_settings
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